Cimarron

See also: cimarron and cimarrón

English

Etymology

From Spanish cimarrón (“feral; maroon”).

Noun

Cimarron (plural Cimarrons)

1. A Maroon (an African who escaped slavery in the Americas, or a descendant thereof), especially a member of the Cimarron people of Panama.
   • 2013, David Franklyn, Belvedere, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

     When he retired from piracy, Uncle Patrice settled down with a woman of mixed Taino and Cimarron ancestry to the less adventurous activity of tobacco ...

   • 2013, Maha Marouan, Merinda Simmons, Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 122:

     We do know that the Spanish were forced to broker peace with the three main palenques of Cimarrons in Panama several years later.

   • 2019, Tracey A. Sowerby, Joanna Craigwood, Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     Davenant's dramatic entertainment The History of Sir Francis Drake rewrites the episode of Drake's alliance with the Cimarrons in order to provide a ...

Alternative forms

• cimarron

Proper noun

Cimarron

1. An unincorporated community in Kings County, California, United States.
2. An unincorporated community in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
3. A city, the county seat of Gray County, Kansas, United States.
4. A village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States.
6. A river that flows from northeastern New Mexico, into the Arkansas River in northeastern Oklahoma.

Derived terms

• Cimarron County

Anagrams

• microRNA, microrna, ramicorn